Saturday Night Special: Baby Alive

October 30th, 2010

“This is my daughter around age 2. She was a “Baby Alive” for Halloween. I had sayings printed on the box like: “I cry, I wet, I talk back”. She hated the box. Once we started trick or treating she was ok, but unless she was getting candy handed to her, she did not want to be in the box on at all!”

I didn’t put in any time. My kids wore masks cut out from a magazine. And you know what they said?

“I can’t breathe! Cut the hole bigger! Bigger! Bigger!” Until basically it was just ears. Scout you will be glad to know that the only brain damage that occurred was due to over-consumption of HFCS sweets.

actually I don’t think this is all that awkward, its a cute costume idea, and cute pic. I guess the only potentially awkard about it is the fact that most 2 year olds aren’t yet completely sold on the idea of getting in a costume and walking around to strangers house for candy. But give them another 2 years and they will want to wear a costume for candy everyday. There has to be more awkward costume pics out there than this one.

If you look closely you can see its a homemade box with the stickers either glued or taped on it….there is no plastic cover piece. It is a cute idea, at the age of 3 my son went dressed in a clear plastic garbage bag filled with small colored balloons as a bag of Jelly Beans…he was the same….as long as he was getting candy he was fine, but during the walk he was more interested in popping the balloons..LoL!

Having lost a child before she was born I can say this was pretty insensitive. I do have a sense of humor, but losing a baby is the worst thing anyone can go through; please don’t trivialize it.
As for the costume: yeah, it’s cute, but not something I would dress my kids in.

If that plastic panel was still on the front of the box, I can see why she didn’t want to be in there. Keep her in there long enough and she wouldn’t be “Baby Alive” for very long. Even if it was removed, age 2 is still pretty young to be inside a box costume; they like to be able to move and run freely.

Seeing as baby alive is a doll that is about a foot tall it’s pretty obvious that this was a homemade box and not the actual box the doll came in. So I’m almost positive it didn’t have the plastic panel on there. You really need to lighten up and probably think before you post.

Seeing as how I have to work with little kids who suffer brain damage, often from “funny pranks” their parents subject them to, I think I’m entitled to point out that putting a toddler in a box is not the brightest of ideas, esp if the mom is complaining that the kid did not like being in there. Sorry to ruin your day. I don’t think purposely irritating children is cute or funny. Just my opinion.

Did you even look the picture close before spouting your drama? The homemade box has no plastic. The kid’s right hand is actually coming out of the box and she is not in any way in danger of getting brain damaged.